u/FazRazza

Honestly - being falsely accused of inappropriate behaviour with patients is my biggest irrational fear.

In 10 years of being a doctor, i’ve only had a couple of complaints from patients (mostly excellent feedback), so i don’t dwell on this, but sometimes the thought does creep in that it only takes ONE big’un and your career is in jeopardy. The complaints I had were mainly for me being stern with patients who were rude to team members, and once for refusing a home visit and instead insisting the family take their mum to hospital, whose speech was slurring, swallow was affected and was drooling… ?stroke.

But a false accusation of sexual assault in an intimate exam basically, that’s my fear. In GP, it’s not as easy to always grab a chaperone without making your list run late. Don’t get me wrong, as a male, with female patients I ALWAYS get a chaperone for intimate exams, but not for abdominal exams unless i get the vibe from the woman that she’s nervous or insecure. For males I offer a chaperone, but they’re usually like “nah you go ahead doc, I don’t want an audience” 😂

But there are bad people out there who are trying to make a buck off of you, and I worry about this happening one day.

Anyone else feel the same, or got any advice around worrying about this?

I’d really appreciate your opinions on this - sorry I know it’s long, but I think context matters.

I once got told off by a GP Partner for calling up patients due to come in for my PM session beforehand.

Context:

Directly after my AM list, I like to scan over who I’ll be seeing in the PM. If it says “discuss results”, I click and see what we’ll be discussing.

Sometimes for example, I find that it’s to discuss results of a patient who is still pending some more tests that are taking a little longer, the results of which will determine the plan going forward - so seeing them for these results would just be telling them that fact, and is a bit of a waste of time for all involved especially if they’re making a trip out for it. Or it could be ‘ultrasound results’ - if it shows something simple, it’s for a brief discussion and needs reassurance +/- referral. You get the gist.

These patients have already been seen and examined once fairly recently, so don’t really need a fresh examination unless new symptoms are present.

I call them up and ask “Is this a good time to talk?”. If they say “yes doctor”, i proceed with “I know you are booked in for a F2F with me this afternoon, however I’ve had a look at your results and think we could manage things over the phone in a few minutes and save you coming out. Of course if you’d prefer to come in F2F you are more than welcome and I can hang up now and see you later”.

90% of the time they say “oh well yes that’d be great actually”, and I handle things on the phone in 5-10 mins. Often they seem really pleased that a doctor has actually gone out of their way to call them unscheduled and it frees up their afternoon and saves them waiting in a WR.

I like to do this because I’m in flow having just done a clinic, and I can ALSO create buffers for later if I’m running late in the PM, which can often happen if I need to spent more time with a patient. So essentially, I have some catch up spots in my PM list. It means patient’s are waiting less, I’m less pushed for time, less overall stress, I feel in a good state of mind, and therefore naturally provide a better service.

It doesn’t even end up with me finishing early, but recently I got told off for this practice of mine (which I did at another much busier place that I worked - which is why I started doing this to cope - and they NEVER had an issue).

On this occasion, i think it was picked up on because they noticed that my last two patients in my list had been seen before 12:30, which made it look like I’m trying to get off early. This was just coincidence that it was those two patients (and another in the middle of the list) who were manageable over the phone that day.

The GP partner who was also my supervisor that day (I’m an ST3), said I shouldn’t do this and kind of eluded to “if you want to get off early you can ask if reception can pull your clinic forward”. I said that’s not my primary intention and tried to explain my reasonings (funny enough I still left later than my contracted hours because of admin). But he just said kind of passively at the end of having a look at my clinic and discussing some of the patients, “I’ll let you get off now then”. After I said I’m not trying to leave early - I still left about an hour later in the end. It felt like he didn’t believe me or didn’t want to listen to the logical explanation I was giving.

Anyway, my point is, I feel like this is an efficient way to work if it works for me and my patients. There are many inefficiencies in this practice, and i try and streamline as much as i can because i hate time wasting. As long as you get what needs to be done in the day done, why is this an issue? I gave the patients the very clear option that they can still come in and we can discuss F2F as scheduled, but usually they’re more than happy with the call.

Do you think I’m in the wrong? Or is there an air of toxicity in my senior’s approach with me here?

Please be sincere, I am not after sympathy. I genuinely want to know if what i’m doing is bad practice - to me it seems logical.

If you throw hooks and spam, it’s easier to win. If you fight calculated and intelligently, it’s harder to win. Being a noob is actually helpful in this game lol.

Why?

Because the game rewards arcade style spam play, not intelligent, timed, precise fighting thanks to the current mechanics.

You throw uppercuts vs takedowns, ducks and body shots and it barely affects the opponent. In the old games this would rock them. Like I have a CAF with 5 star punch power and dudes are swinging body shots THROUGH my uppercuts. The game is so broken and trash lmao.

Not real punishment for whiffing strikes or moving into them. How can a billion dollar company release a game in such a bad beta state?

Like dudes whiff a head kick that I duck. And can still block my hook because there is a delay before I can strike back or something. And when I do connect, it’s like a normal punch - no extra damage.

The game rewards players who have mastered the art of spam thanks to unlimited stamina and terrible unbalanced strike animations, and doesn’t simulate an actual fight at all, yet they claimed this version would be more realistic?

Give me a break.

Anyone else notice this with uppercuts?

UFC 5 > 6

Hands down.

Is it just me? Is it an xbox thing? Feels like I’m using a PC with no RAM or GB storage left as I browse menus - soooo slow! Or when I scroll tattoos on the CAFs.

Is it just me? I’m on xbox. There hardly any vibration haptic feedback. You can get rocked or hit with something hard and not even know it.

Like for real… tired of getting punked and losing my streak to players who are used to playing with disgusting desync. I’d cap at 100ms if I had the option.

Also this new ufc 6 doesn’t reward you enough for slipping and hitting. Uppercutting a dude who ducks or is hitting body shots does NOTHING.

To anyone who has sat the exam recently: are the questions truly similar to GP Self Test in the AKT? In self test there are about 5 options per Q usually, but someone I know who recently sat the test said in t he exam you'd get 8-12 options?

Picking out the right ONE answer, might be ok, but are there many questions asking for TWO answers for one mark?

Any clarification would be much appreciated. And any other advice on the actual exam too, final week prep.

You can face guys who just swing and never run out of stamina and just ko you through your block with spam hooks and uppercuts, when your perfectly timed straights or counter lead hooks in between their wild swings do barely any damage.

EA really need to give straights more purpose. A good jab should stop someone in his tracks, and a cross? Well that should be able to stun someone.

The game favours these wild strikers who are pure trash and would never get away with this in the last game.

Even when they whiff punches - stamina doesn’t drain much and the punishment for whiffing say, a big roundhouse, isn’t enough.

I actually can’t believe this game was released.

And don’t even get me started on flow state… flow shite.